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[RFC,1/5] clocksource: Fix abs() usage w/ 64bit values

Message ID 1442279124-7309-2-git-send-email-john.stultz@linaro.org
State Accepted
Commit 67dfae0cd72fec5cd158b6e5fb1647b7dbe0834c
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John Stultz Sept. 15, 2015, 1:05 a.m. UTC
This patch fixes one cases where abs() was being used with 64-bit
nanosecond values, where the result may be capped at 32-bits.

This potentially could cause watchdog false negatives on 32-bit
systems, so this patch addresses the issue by using abs64().

Cc: Prarit Bhargava <prarit@redhat.com>
Cc: Richard Cochran <richardcochran@gmail.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Signed-off-by: John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org>
---
 kernel/time/clocksource.c | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
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diff --git a/kernel/time/clocksource.c b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
index 841b72f..3a38775 100644
--- a/kernel/time/clocksource.c
+++ b/kernel/time/clocksource.c
@@ -217,7 +217,7 @@  static void clocksource_watchdog(unsigned long data)
 			continue;
 
 		/* Check the deviation from the watchdog clocksource. */
-		if ((abs(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD)) {
+		if (abs64(cs_nsec - wd_nsec) > WATCHDOG_THRESHOLD) {
 			pr_warn("timekeeping watchdog: Marking clocksource '%s' as unstable because the skew is too large:\n",
 				cs->name);
 			pr_warn("                      '%s' wd_now: %llx wd_last: %llx mask: %llx\n",